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Document-feather-cotton thread delivered by the artist Gustavo Caboco Wapichana to the Arquivo Histórico Wanda Svevo – © Levi Fanan / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
News 14 May 2025

‘Living’ archives and the memory that is rebuilt

Based on research at the Arquivo Histórico Wanda Svevo, Gustavo Caboco Wapichana and Tipuici Manoki wondered about Indigenous absence in contemporary art archives. Researcher Marilúcia Bottallo looks at the results of this research and explores other aspects of this process.

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Portrait of Wanda Svevo. – Photo: Unknown authorship
Interviews 29 Apr 2025

Wanda Svevo: a family profile

Based on an interview with Alberto Svevo – son of Wanda Svevo, the founder of the Bienal Archive – we put together a profile of his mother from an intimate point of view.

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Detail view of Templo de Oxalá, by Rubem Valentim, during the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible – © Levi Fanan / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Articles 15 Apr 2025

Wall as Support: Rubem Valentim’s Templo de Oxalá

Researcher Bruno Pinheiro revisits the emblematic installation presented by Rubem Valentim at the 14th Bienal de São Paulo, in 1977, and analyzes how the work articulates Afro-Brazilian spirituality, sacred geometry and modernist architecture, projecting a space of resistance and reflection that gains new strength with its reassembly at the 35th Bienal.

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Poster for Bukimi no Tani (不気味の谷): The Uncanny Valley – The Affectivity of the Humanoid – © Studio Yukiko / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
News 3 Apr 2025

The Bienal de São Paulo brings thoughts on artificial intelligence and digital culture to Tokyo in the latest edition of the Invocations cycle

In the last stage of the program, the 36th Bienal de São Paulo seeks to discuss the intersections between art, technology, and humanity from the point of view of artists, scientists, and researchers

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Facade of the pavilion built for the 1st Bienal – © Arquivo Histórico Wanda Svevo / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Articles 28 Mar 2025

Women artists and acquisition prizes at the 1st Bienal de São Paulo

Mariana Leão, researcher and curator of art collections, highlights the role of artists such as Maria Leontina, Tarsila do Amaral, Prunella Clough, and Germaine Richier in their awards at the 1st Bienal de São Paulo, especially in the acquisition categories, with their works incorporated into the MAM collection and later, the MAC USP.

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National representation of Canada, with Cecil Clark, Tyrone Guthrie, and Michael Langham, 1st Bienal de Artes Plásticas do Teatro, 4th Bienal de São Paulo, 1957. – Photo: Author unidentified
Articles 20 Feb 2025

The Bienal das Artes Plásticas do Teatro: a little-known history of the Bienal de São Paulo

Rosane Muniz Rocha, a researcher in theater theory and practice, discusses the creation of the Bienal das Artes Plásticas do Teatro in 1957, which integrated theater, set design and costume design in the Bienal de São Paulo. The show, conceived by Aldo Calvo, lasted until 1973 and was a milestone for the performing arts.

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Geoglyphs found in the state of Acre, Brazil, 2022 – Diego Gurgel / © courtesy of the photographer
News 19 Feb 2025

Brazilian Pavilion at Biennale Architettura 2025: (RE)INVENTION

Curated by Luciana Saboia, Eder Alencar, and Matheus Seco of the Plano Coletivo group, the exhibition at the Brazil Pavilion explores the relationship between nature and contemporaneity

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Signaling of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition during the Boycott Bienal – © Arquivo Histórico Wanda Svevo / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Articles 12 Feb 2025

Between achievements and setbacks: the creation of the Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo

Architect and urban planner Raíssa Armelin Lopes describes the creation of the Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura in 1973 – in the midst of the dictatorship –, the path to its birth, which includes the Exposição Internacional de Arquitetura within the Bienal de São Paulo, its objectives and contradictions.

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Poster for Mawali–Taqsim: Improvisation as a Space and Technology of Humanity – © Studio Yukiko / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
News 24 Jan 2025

Taarab music and improvisation take center stage in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo Invocation in Zanzibar

The third Invocation of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo highlights Taarab culture and philosophy, exploring its expressions through music and poetry, while considering Taarab as a space of conjugating humanity.

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The New Look by Flávio de Carvalho, 1951. – CEDAE IEL Archive, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
Articles 27 Dec 2024

Forms of time: the ties between fashion and art

Researcher Brunno Almeida Maia explores the relationship between art and fashion over the centuries.

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Sidney Amaral, Gargalheira ou quem falará por nós? [Iron Collar or Who Will Speak for Us?], 2014. Watercolor and colored pencil on paper, 55 x 75 cm. – Photo: João Liberato
Articles 27 Dec 2024

The politics of visibility

Kleber Antonio de Oliveira Amancio, associate professor at UFRB, analyzes Sidney Amaral’s work, Gargalheira ou quem falará por nós? (2014), which reflects on power, communication and the oppression of black identities. Contemporary Afro-Brazilian art questions the historical invisibility of black people and reframes visibility as a form of resistance, challenging the centrality of the white vision in art.

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Child activates Albano Afonso’s artwork. "O pássaro e a lua" [The Bird and the Moon], 2010. Wood, formica, motor, flashlight. – Photo: Erika Mayumi
Articles 11 Dec 2024

Ludic experiences: art as a way of playing

Have you ever noticed how many toys are included in the works of artists? In her text for +bienal, researcher Mariane Klettenhofer highlights the invitation to play in the creation of great names in modern and contemporary art such as Picasso, Klee, Calder and Oiticica.

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Detail view of work by Archivo de la Memoria Trans (AMT) during the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible – © Levi Fanan / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Articles 10 Dec 2024

Archive-crossroads: AMT, Zumví, 397

“Can one legitimately think of ‘archives of nows’ and ‘catalogs of happenstances’ outside of a poem? Can happenstances and nows be stored in a systematic way?” are a few questions that Bianca Mantovani, cultural administrator, curator and researcher, asks in this new text for +bienal.

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Léo Tavares, Aeaea (detail), 2024. Assemblage.
Story 6 Dec 2024

Of descriptive treatises and sudden appearances

Writer Natalia Borges Polesso contributes to +bienal with a short story based on the figure of the contemporary artist. Check it out!

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Campanha publicitária para a 35ª Bienal de São Paulo – © DOJO / ICONOCLAST / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
News 5 Dec 2024

35th Bienal de São Paulo reaches record attendance

Over 1 million people were able to visit the exhibition, which occupied the Bienal Pavilion last year and travels different cities in Brazil and the Global South in 2024

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